Demography category: 971 books
Social Inequality & The Politics of Representation
A Global Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
In a global landscape, the representational practices through which inequalities gain meaning are central- both within and across national boundaries. Social Inequality & The Politics of Representation takes a fresh look at how inequalities of class, race, sexuality, gender, and nation are constructed...
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Language: French
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Les banlieues populaires occupent une place particulière dans l’imaginaire français contemporain. Depuis les années 1980, elles se voient progressivement assignées à des images stéréotypées et des identités négatives qui reflètent avant tout les peurs des classes dominantes. Nombreux...
by Stephen Emmott
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Éste es un libro de terror. Al igual que en Frankenstein, nosotros hemos construido al monstruo, nosotros somos sus víctimas y ahora tratamos inútilmente de detenerlo. Los hechos son simples: la población mundial crece, los recursos tienen un límite y las consecuencias de explotar esos recursos...
by Anna Matysiak
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
The book explores interlinkages between women’s employment and fertility at both a macro- and a micro-level in EU member states, Norway and Switzerland. Similarly as many other studies on the topic, it refers to the cross-country variation in the macro-context for explaining cross-country differences...
Fertility Control in a Risk Society
Analysing Contraception Choice of Urban Elites in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This book analyses the reasons for relying on behavioural contraception methods among urban ‘elites’ in India and examines their efficacy in controlling fertility. It also traces variations in contraception choice over the reproductive cycle of women.
Although researchers and policy makers...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
This book provides a unique blend of social and biomedical sciences in the field of low fertility and reproductive health. It offers a significant contribution to understanding the determinants of low fertility mostly in East Asia, including an assessment of the effectiveness of policies that aim...
by Clem Seecharan
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Diverse conceptions of India, as homeland, were central to the shaping of Indo-Guyanese identity. An imagined India − part fact, part fantasy − has continually woven into the Indo-Guyanese consciousness a rich, elevating construction of self: an antidote to the deflating image of the ‘coolie’...
Darjeeling Reconsidered
Histories, Politics, Environments
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Darjeeling occupies a special place in the South Asian imaginary with its Himalayan vistas, lush tea gardens, and brisk mountain air. Thousands of tourists, domestic and international, annually flock to the hills to taste their world-renowned tea and soak up the colonial nostalgia. Darjeeling Reconsidered...
Pourquoi les migrants vivent-ils plus longtemps ?
Les inégalités face à la mort en Suisse (19902008)
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Dans les sociétés postindustrielles contemporaines, les migrants ont généralement des risques de décès inférieurs aux populations des pays d’accueil bien qu’ils soient tendanciellement plus vulnérables en raison de moindres capitaux humains, sociaux et économiques. Il s’agit là d’un...
by Iosif G. Dyadkin
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This astonishing and sobering account of government- and war-induced civilian deaths in the Soviet Union calculates that Soviet loss of life between 1928 and 1954 was far higher than Western ex-perts have ever believed. Applying mathematical techniques to Soviet demographic statistics, Dyadkin shows...
Italiani poca gente
Il Paese ai tempi del malessere demografico
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Le principali sfide delle società contemporanee, e dell’Italia in particolare, sono in larga parte causate da un mutamento profondo e spesso ignorato: il calo demografico, con le sue molteplici conseguenze in termini di economia stagnante e welfare a rischio collasso, instabilità politica e irrilevanza...
The Millennial Mosaic
How Pluralism and Choice Are Shaping Canadian Youth and the Future of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2019
The bottom line: Millennials are looking good
There’s a lot of consternation about the Millennial generation — Canada’s youngest adults born since the mid-1980s and now reaching their thirties. But the speculation has not been accompanied by sound and comprehensive information — until...
Wir Zukunftssucher
Wie Deutschland enkeltauglich wird
Language: German
Release Date: September 12, 2012
"Uns verbindet eine Schizophrenie aus Konsumismus und Postmaterialismus, eine bizarre Mischung aus materieller Sorglosigkeit und sozialem Leistungsdruck, persönlichem Zukunftsoptimismus und diffuser Zukunftsangst, politischer Entfremdung und dem Bewusstsein, dass doch alles nicht so bleiben kann, wie...
After Work Balance: Die Zeit danach
Die Perspektiven der Älteren
Language: German
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Wir werden immer älter, und viele Menschen sind beim Eintritt in den Ruhestand noch fit und möchten eine Tätigkeit ausüben, die ihnen Freude bereitet und für andere Nutzen stiftet. Dietmar Goldammer klärt auf, regt an und mobilisiert. Unterschiedliche individuelle Voraussetzungen erfordern unterschiedliche...